The drawings may look simple (some are better than others), but it's the kind of progress that highlights how artificial intelligence is continuing to gain humanlike capabilities.

The team from MIT, York University and the University of Toronto first trained an algorithm to draw characters in 50 languages by studying the required pen strokes.

An algorithm close algorithm A sequence of logical instructions for carrying out a task. In computing, algorithms are needed to design computer programs. to get a computer to draw a square on the ...